Self-Healing Polymer Muscles

June 14, 2018

A Stanford University Chemist is working on a material composed of silicon, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon. It can be used to make artificial muscles & can be stretched up to 40 times its length and return to normal. It also has its own self-healing prosperities that can recover such as holes or tears within 72 hours. Electric conductivity allowing it to increase by 2% when an electric field is introduced. Dr. Lee, the inventor is trying to gradually increase its capacity.